The making and unmaking of the Haya lived world : consumption, commoditization, and everyday practice /

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At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and the producer of everyday practices. Drawing on his experience living with the Haya, Brad Weiss explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiss, Brad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, ©1996.
Colección:Body, commodity, text.
Temas:
Haya (African people) > Economic conditions.
Haya (African people) > Commerce.
Haya (African people) > Food.
Philosophy, Haya.
Haya (Peuple d'Afrique) > Conditions économiques.
Haya (Peuple d'Afrique) > Commerce.
Haya (Peuple d'Afrique) > Alimentation.
Philosophie haya.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
HISTORY / Africa / General
Economic history
Haya (African people) > Economic conditions
Philosophy, Haya
Social conditions
Kagera Region (Tanzania) > Economic conditions.
Kagera Region (Tanzania) > Social conditions.
Kagera (Tanzanie : Région administrative) > Conditions économiques.
Kagera (Tanzanie : Région administrative) > Conditions sociales.
Tanzania > Kagera Region
Tansania
Haya.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 An Orientation to the Study
  • I MAKING THE WORLD
  • 2 "Evil Flee, Goodness Come In": Creating and Securing Domesticity
  • 3 Hearthplaces and Households: Haya Culinary Practices
  • 4 Mealtime: Providing and Presenting a Meal
  • 5 A Moral Gastronomy: Value and Action in the Experience of Food
  • II THE WORLD UNMADE
  • 6 Plastic Teeth Extraction: An Iconography of Gastrosexual Affliction
  • 7 "Buying Her Grave": Money, Movement, and AIDS
  • 8 Electric Vampires: From Embodied Commodities to Commoditized Bodies
  • 9 Conclusions: The Enchantment of the Disenchanted World
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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